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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

9/11's Aftermath of Lethal Tolerance ... Alan Caruba

9/11's Aftermath of Lethal Tolerance

By Alan Caruba

The one thing I have never understood is the way Americans seem to
refuse to accept the fact that the worst attack on the homeland since
Pearl Harbor was planned, funded, carried out by Muslims, and was
celebrated by Muslims around the world.

Perhaps the reluctance to relate the attack to “a religion” had to do
with the way whole generations of Americans since the 1960s have passed
through schools that indoctrinated them to believe that America has been
invading other nations wrongly, supporting allies like Israel wrongly,
and deserved to be attacked because of it.

Perhaps the election of a President with a Muslim name makes people reluctant to associate 9/11 with Islam?

The President, Barack Hussein Obama, is the son of a Muslim father he
venerates even though he deserted and divorced his mother. He became the
step-son of another Muslim his mother married, spent four years growing
up in Indonesia surrounded by Muslims, until he was returned to the
United States to be raised by his grandparents. While growing up in
Hawaii he was mentored by a card-carrying member of the Communist Party
USA and during his college years, a close friend was a Pakistani with
whom he traveled to that nation.

In “Audacity of Hope” he wrote, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

In retrospect 9/11 was entirely predictable. American military had been
under attack since 1986 when a marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by
a suicide bomber. After that, there was a succession of embassy
bombings, an attack on the USS Cole.

In 1993 the first attempt to destroy the Twin Towers was unsuccessful,
but was treated like an ordinary criminal case instead of the warning
for heightened vigilance..

How many more Americans will have to die before we acknowledge that the
enemy is Islam and the attacks reflect—not all, but many—Muslims’ view
that America is, in Osama bin Laden’s words, the “great Satan”, while
Israel is the “little Satan”? It took a decade to hunt him down and kill
him. In the end, he was found in Pakistan, a mile from that nation’s
equivalent of West Point.

This is not a call to punish American Muslims who are loyal to the
nation, but even in our military service, the 2009 Fort Hood massacre by
Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army Major, serves as a reminder that it is hard
to know when the desire to strike fellow Americans will occur; dubbed
the “sudden jihad syndrome.”.

Even in the wake of 9/11 when many in the Middle East were dancing in
the streets and handing out candy to celebrate, President Bush went to
great lengths to separate the perpetrators from the rest of the Muslim
population of the nation and the world. The end of Ramadan was
celebrated in the White House under Bush and, of course, by Obama.

One wonders how long it will take for the vast body of evidence that a
war is being waged by Muslims around the world against those they scorn
as “unbelievers” and against whom Islam calls for “a holy war.”

Recent reports from the Middle East indicate that, over the past five years, scores of Christians
living in Egypt were murdered and that women and children are being
abducted, tortured, raped, and forced to convert to Islam; 550 cases
have been documented. The tiny Christian community in the Hamas-run Gaza
strip is under siege. In Indonesia, Muslim protesters forced a church
to shut down during Sunday worship. Name the nation, Iran, Lebanon,
Kenya, Kuwait, Turkey, and what emerges is a consistent pattern, one
that mirrors the way Islam was spread by terror and conquest since the
seventh century.

Post 9/11 is testimony to a suicidal tolerance that ignores the message
left by the ruins of the Twin Towers, the attack on the Pentagon, and
the deaths of more than 3,000 innocent people on the airlines and in
those buildings who were deemed the enemies of Islam for no other reason
than being Americans, for being “infidels.”

It is a fearful prospect that a nuclear mushroom cloud could rise over
Israel and, in all likelihood, over New York and other U.S. cities if we
do not end this foolish “tolerance” that preys on an American value we
hold dear and which may well doom more Americans.

The official policy of two administrations has been to pretend that
Islam is not the enemy. The Obama administration went so far as to tell
NASA that its new mission was Muslim outreach. And Islam is reaching
back, but not in gratitude for ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein or
protecting Afghanis against the Taliban. The hatred of America, of
Christians, Jews, and all other faiths is costing lives every day.

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J. D. Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”.